Other pioneer businesses were Holland & Mays, set up in 1884 by E.L. Holland and J.H. Mays Sr.; the town’s first grocery store, owned by the Jackson Brothers, A.T. and Newt; a millinery shop, operated by Misses Minnie and Edith Tims; and the Ruston Hardware & Furniture Co., established in 1890 by W.F. Ashley.